Trump says he welcomes foreign dirt on opponents

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Published on June 13, 2019 - Duration: 01:45s

Trump says he welcomes foreign dirt on opponents

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would see nothing wrong in accepting damaging information on a U.S. political opponent if it were offered to his re-election campaign by a foreign government.

Jonah Green is on the story.

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Trump says he welcomes foreign dirt on opponents

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would see nothing wrong in accepting damaging information on a political opponent if it were offered by a foreign government.

Asked in an interview with ABC News if he would accept the information during a campaign or alert the FBI, Trump said: "I think maybe you do both.

I think you might want to listen, there's nothing wrong with listening...If somebody called from a country, Norway, 'we have information on your opponent' - oh, I think I'd want to hear it.” SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: “Russia, if you're listening..." During the campaign Trump implied that he’d welcome their help hacking the emails of his opponent, and subsequently went on to repeatedly use Wikileaks’ release of emails that US intelligence agencies were stolen by…Russia.